Gun violence recently surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for American children.
By Robert Gebeloff, Danielle Ivory, Bill Marsh, Allison McCann and Albert Sun
For much of the nation’s history, disease was the No. 1 killer of children. Then America became the land of the automobile, and by the 1960s, motor-vehicle crashes were the most common way for children to die. Twenty years ago, well after the advent of the seatbelt, an American child was still three times as likely to die in a car accident as to be killed by a firearm. We’re now living in the era of the gun...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/14/magazine/gun-violence-children-data-statistics.html
